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I totally stole this from Myr. And the funny thing is, my results were 100% Orthodox Judaism.
I think a lot of the scoring comes from how important you rate each question. I didn't pay much attention to that, so it told me I was only 70% Mormon. Ah well. Just dont't tell anyone.
quote:1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%) 2. Bahá'í Faith (96%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (93%) 4. Jehovah's Witness (92%) 5. Orthodox Judaism (81%)
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I never quite liked the fact that Judaism always regarded the name J-H-V-H to be so precious and what I like to refer to as superstition. Now I know why!
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (94%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%) 4. Neo-Pagan (86%) 5. New Age (86%) 6. Secular Humanism (81%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (68%) 8. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (64%) 9. New Thought (62%) 10. Scientology (61%) 11. Mahayana Buddhism (60%) 12. Bahá'í Faith (59%) 13. Nontheist (52%) 14. Taoism (52%) 15. Reform Judaism (49%) 16. Orthodox Quaker (44%) 17. Jainism (43%) 18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (36%) 19. Sikhism (34%) 20. Jehovah's Witness (33%) 21. Hinduism (32%) 22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (31%) 23. Islam (23%) 24. Orthodox Judaism (23%) 25. Eastern Orthodox (18%) 26. Roman Catholic (18%) 27. Seventh Day Adventist (17%)
Should I write a Unitarian Universalist Bible?
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1. Reform Judaism (100%) 2. Sikhism (98%) 3. Bahá'í Faith (97%) 4. Orthodox Judaism (97%) 5. Islam (94%) 6. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (80%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (78%) 8. Liberal Quakers (77%) 9. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (77%) 10. Neo-Pagan (74%)
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1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Orthodox Quaker (91%) 3. Seventh Day Adventist (85%) 4. Eastern Orthodox (84%) 5. Roman Catholic (84%) 6. Unitarian Universalism (82%) 7. Hinduism (82%)
It just so happens I'm a mainline to liberal Christian Protestant...and I live in Philadelphia...the unoffical home of the Orthodox Quaker...
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1. Eastern Orthodox (100%) 2. Roman Catholic (100%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (85%) 4. Seventh Day Adventist (80%) 5. Orthodox Quaker (72%) 6. Orthodox Judaism (60%) 7. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (57%) 8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (56%)
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1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%) 2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%) 3. Jehovah's Witness (83%) 4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (80%) 5. Bahá'í Faith (70%) 6. Orthodox Judaism (67%) 7. Orthodox Quaker (64%) 8. Liberal Quakers (61%) 9. Islam (57%) 10. Eastern Orthodox (55%) 11. Roman Catholic (55%) 12. Sikhism (53%) 13. Reform Judaism (50%) 14. Unitarian Universalism (50%) 15. Seventh Day Adventist (48%) 16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (47%) 17. Hinduism (45%) 18. Jainism (43%) 19. Mahayana Buddhism (42%) 20. Theravada Buddhism (40%) 21. Neo-Pagan (39%) 22. New Thought (29%) 23. New Age (28%) 24. Secular Humanism (28%) 25. Scientology (25%) 26. Taoism (20%) 27. Nontheist (17%)
I was raised Presbyterian, by a mother who had been raised Baptist and left, and left to become LDS.
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1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (93%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (90%) 4. Neo-Pagan (83%) 5. Orthodox Quaker (76%) 6. Reform Judaism (69%) 7. New Age (67%) 8. Secular Humanism (66%) 9. Hinduism (65%) 10. Theravada Buddhism (58%)
They guessed right. At least for the first one. I dont totally understand the reasoning for the ones after that.
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1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (94%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (93%) 4. Neo-Pagan (85%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (84%)
Funny, I grew up Roman Catholic and I remember taking this quiz about 3 years ago and Roman Catholic being 85%...
27. Roman Catholic (21%)
It got dead last this time, which is kind of surprising. Liberal Quakers was on top last time I took it too.
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It worked for me.... And the fact that Islam is so close to Orthodox Judaism makes sense. Jews consider Islam to be significantly more theologically sound than Christianity, I know....
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quote: 1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%) 2. Jehovah's Witness (80%) 3. Orthodox Judaism (76%) 4. Sikhism (71%) 5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (69%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
interesting. i seem to have the greatest spread between the first 2 results (20%) and for 5 and 6, i'm equally on both political ends of the Christian Protestants.
then, i also find it curious that JW is the next closest to my beliefs, when i have found little that i was able to agree with in their faith. must've been all the books and pamphlets i used to collect.
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1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Orthodox Quaker (80%) 3. Liberal Quakers (80%) 4. Reform Judaism (77%) 5. Unitarian Universalism (72%) 6. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (71%) 7. Eastern Orthodox (63%) 8. Roman Catholic (63%) 9. Seventh Day Adventist (58%) 10. Orthodox Judaism (56%)
Hmmm... Looks like I'm in the right church. I dunno if I'm quiet or nonviolent enough to be a Quaker... O_o
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quote:Wow. I wonder why I'm in the LDS church if I don't quite fit in it according to this test.
I can tell you, from my long study into Christian doctrine recently - most people don't know what they believe.
You'd be surprised how many Baptists in my family I've talked to and when I said "I'm not Baptist because I can't accept X." they answer "Well, I don't accept X either!" And I say "Why do you go to a Baptist church then, because your doctrine asserts X." They're shocked.
When we did a series on doctrine at our church, where we basically read the doctrine out loud and discussed it, only three people besides my husband and myself had problems with it - and let me tell you, it had glaring problems! We are in the middle of a pastor search and of the candidates that the search committtee passed along to the session for interviews, all of them refused the position based on one thing: the church has a weak doctrinal statement.
But most people in the church don't know or understand that.
It amazes me how little most people know about their own faith. It's a major failing of protestant churches - we don't teach doctrine very often and we should. I don't know about other faiths, not having enough experience with them.
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Belle, I would say that if someone who attends an LDS church regularly doesn't understand the basic doctrine, a teacher is not doing his/her job somewhere. We have rigorous programs in place (Primary for kids, Young Men/Young Women, Sunday School, and Seminary for teenagers, and Sunday School and Elder's Quorum/Relief Society for adults) that are supposed to teach, re-teach, reinforce, and provide opportunities to live our doctrine. We are also encouraged to have Family Home Evening every week and reinforce doctrine at home, as well as family prayer and daily scripture study (although observance of these recommendations varies with differing family situations). It may not be a question of understanding; it may be a question of disagreeing, or else someone may, as I said, have been teaching incorrect doctrine or not teaching effectively.
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quote: 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 3. Liberal Quakers (96%) 4. Mahayana Buddhism (89%) 5. New Age (89%) 6. Reform Judaism (82%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%) 8. Theravada Buddhism (78%) 9. Secular Humanism (73%) 10. Bahá'í Faith (70%) . . . 22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (30%) 23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (28%) 24. Seventh Day Adventist (25%) 25. Jehovah's Witness (21%) 26. Eastern Orthodox (17%) 27. Roman Catholic (17%)
Hmphhh. Nathan just got me to agree to becoming members of the local Episcopalian church here in town, too . . . well, I've always been known to be contradictory . . .
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quote:Some Neo-Pagans find no incongruence practicing Neo-Paganism along with adherence to another faith, such as Christianity or Judaism.
Hmmmm.
The rest of the description on "neo-paganism" found here: Neo-Pagan Summary
I fail to see how having a basic respect for -and interest in - other traditions, especially those that respect and reverence the home we have been given to live in, and acknowledge that we ALL our children of "God", makes me neo-pagan. Don't (or shouldn't) all religions do the same?
Ah well - silly little test with interesting answers . . .
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kq I've been going to church all my life and I've been in countless Sunday School classes and Bible studies and I can tell you I never knew much of anything about doctrine until I studied on my own.
Maybe the LDS church is different, don't know never been to one. But most protestant churches do a good job of re-inforcing over and over the same things. They don't really delve deeper and go into theological issues.
Case in point, I was reading an account by someone from one of the reformed seminaries, and he said during an inter-denominational meeting a Catholic priest asked him what he believed and he told him he was reformed and the next time they got together he gave him copies of the Westminster Confession and other documents oulining his beliefs and the priest said he was amazed. His comment: "With most protestants you can never tell where they stand - they usually don't know for themselves what their denominations believe."
Again, this may not apply to LDS, my particular rant is directed toward American protestant churches, like the ones I grew up in, and that my family and friends all go to. Heck, my own church - this issue with doctrine is one of the main reasons we're considering shopping for a new one.
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Belle, that's what I'm saying; we have church-wide prescribed lessons that are the same all over the world. People are not supposed to teach their own interpretation of the lesson. They are supposed to teach what is in the manual, reinforced by quotes from the General Authorities (worldwide leadership of the church) and the Prophet and the Scriptures. At least once a month, we get a lesson that touches on basic doctrine in each of our classes. Children memorize the 13 "Articles of Faith", a basic statement of belief, and each month the Primary teaches the children (or is supposed to teach the children) what one of them means, not just what it says. We focus often on what we believe and how it is different from other churches, because the goal is to have every member well-educated about the Church and able to teach a friend who asks a question. Our young men are expected (and some of our young women are encouraged) to understand the doctrine well enough to go out and teach it to strangers for two years before they've even finished college. Our specific doctrine is thoroughly discussed with the goal of every member understanding and believing it.
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That said, I've run into several Mormons with shocking ignorance of their own "deep doctrine."
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